While the Metropolitan Police Service acts as lead force for the National Public Order Intelligence Unit, the NPOIU reports through Acpo to senior police leaders across England, Wales and Northern Ireland because it is historically a national police asset, not owned by any individual force. However, any operations the NPOIU supports must be requested and authorised by individual police forces, not Acpo. I have put on record, including in this paper, my wish to move Acpo away from limited company status to become a professional policing body. I am pleased we have already secured inclusion under the Freedom of Information Act to take effect later this year, and our aim for the future is to clearly focus the organisation on leadership in policing, under a new governance structure in line with the government's recent consultation on policing.